Changelog News Changelog News #104

Southwest flies high over CrowdStrike outage

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Featuring Jerod Santo
2024-07-22T21:15:00Z 🎧 19,837

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Michael Vincent

Michael Vincent

2024-07-23T01:14:28Z ago

There’s no evidence that Southwest’s systems are running on Windows 3.1:

AFAICT, it’s entirely bollocks. Same with the claim they still run Windows 95, that’s from the same lazy digitaltrends article, misquoting another misquote from 2 years ago.

https://hachyderm.io/@danderson/112823168105006094

Jerod Santo

Jerod Santo

Omaha, Nebraska

Jerod co-hosts The Changelog, crashes JS Party, and takes out the trash (his old code) once in awhile.

2024-07-23T13:03:28Z ago

Good call, thanks for pointing this out.

I didn’t read my source close enough to realize it’s filled with qualifiers (‘apparently’, ‘some are attributing’, etc.) & didn’t click through to the CNN source to realize the reason for Southwest’s uptime wasn’t stated.

I changed the episode title/newsletter subject so it’s for sure accurate now & updated the intro paragraph to reference rumors vs stating it as a fact.

I’ll also issue a correction in next week’s audio doing the same.

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